PASAY CITY, PHILIPPINES, August 22, 2007. Q-Linux Labs, the country’s pioneer and most respected name in Linux and Open Source, in partnership with POSH Marketing Services, participated at the recently concluded Systems Integration Philippines 2007 held at the World Trade Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City last August 16-18, 2007.

The three-day event was a great success.  Nearly 100 exhibitors from various companies and hundreds of unique participants, mostly technology executives, IT experts, and decision makers converged at the event. 

A post on LXer suggests that a Microsoft vulnerability report shows that Microsoft wasn't able to fix more Windows flaws than the
number of open software flaws fixed by the major open source companies.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Aug. 15, 2007 — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource, Inc. of , a privately held leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions, for approximately $500 million in a combination of cash and stock, which includes the assumption of approximately $107 million in unvested stock options.

Linux-Microsoft Lovefest at LinuxWorld Expo by ZDNet's
Paula Rooney -- For open source backers who love to bash Microsoft (and
other proprietary software companies), this LinuxWorld was not for you.
At the conference in San Francisco, key industry figures emphasized the
need for respect and cooperation between open source companies and
Microsoft because of the reality that customers will be using a mix of
open source [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)—
07 Aug 2007. At the opening of the LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center trade show in San Francisco, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Novell today announced a new agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open source application server market. Under the agreement, Novell will deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) as part of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, making it the industry's most comprehensive open source-based server offering.

SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)—
07 Aug 2007. On the second anniversary of the creation of the openSUSE™ project, the community program this week marked two new milestones – the availability of the first beta of openSUSE 10.3 and the continued growth of the openSUSE Build Service.

ZDNet posted an interesting article about Microsoft's latest overtures to win over the open source community. It is significant in that it represents a complete about face from its initial position around open source (at one time describing it as "un-American" and "anti-capitalism.")

Some of the more significant moves Microsoft is doing around Open Source are:

CIO Insight posted today an interesting article on Open Source and success stories from companies who have decided to take the plunge and the payback they are getting from the decision. The article was writtern by Darel Dunn.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - July 24, 2007 - Untangle, the pioneer in open source network gateway platforms, today announced the "Untangle AV Fight Club." It will take place August 8 at the LinuxWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Testing labs have not publicized test results of open source projects like ClamAV. This may not be surprising given that these labs are funded by proprietary vendors. With the testing system as is, open source solutions aren’t even in the game. This isn’t right.

LONDON, July 23, 2007 – Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management, today announced the immediate availability of its first-ever global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise.